Programming, Technology, Design and whatever else moves me

The “Logitech G213 Prodigy Gaming Keyboard” is a pretty good rubber dome keyboard with the usual multimedia keys plus the gaming button which turns of some annoying keys while gaming. It has no unneeded nick-nack, the illumination is bright (enough)... Read more »

A new competitor to the famous Raspberry Pi emerged, the Orange Pi family. And they not only seem to be really powerful and cheap little bastards but are also equipped with a lot of features that make them interesting not... Read more »

And here comes another useless but cool HTML 5 effect (See also: Water ripple effect done in HTML 5 and Snow effect done in HTML 5), the good old starfield animation you knew and loved from the old Windows 95... Read more »

This is another useless but cool effect you can do in HMTL 5 (See also: Water ripple effect done in HTML 5 and Starfield animation done in HTML 5), let it snow: This is a simple algorithm that initializes each... Read more »

With the newest xkcd (#1608) Randall Munroe really outdid himself (again)! To promote his new book “Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words” he created a mini-game in which you hover on a Hoverboard (What else ^^) collect coins and... Read more »

WINDOWS users please note: Under Windows the described installation method of Pyserial does not work at the moment due to an update of Pyserial. Please download pyserial-2.7.tar.gz instead of the file described in Inkscape and follow the rest of the... Read more »

I am sure you have seen this effect before, a picture distorted more or less realistically while you move your mouse over it causing the “water” to “ripple”: In the early 2000s this was done with Java Applets causing a... Read more »

WINDOWS users please note: Under Windows the described installation method of Pyserial does not work at the moment due to an update of Pyserial. Please download pyserial-2.7.tar.gz instead of the file described in Inkscape and follow the rest of the... Read more »

How? That’s pretty easy. Get your hands on a cutting plotter, plot out a negative Windows logo, put some colored foil behind the “windows” and stick it over the glowing Apple logo of your new business Mac: It’s guaranteed to... Read more »

To my great disappointment i had to note today that ID Software has turned off all the master server for “Return To Castle Wolfenstein” and “Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory”. I have to say that i am really disenchanted of ID Software,... Read more »